How To Use lateen sail In A Sentence
- Also, the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzenmast, originally a triangular lateen sail, was changed to accommodate the more modern rig.
- It was square-rigged on its foremasts and mainmasts, but used a lateen sail on the mizzen to help in tacking.
- Then came the boat with what was known as a lateen sail which could be adjusted to catch the wind.
- The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water.
- The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water.
- There was a red cross of St. George to be painted on the lateen sail, perhaps with a gold border. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
- In fact, of course, the Arabs' contributions to the world have been crucial, from algebra to the lateen sail, from Sufi spirituality to key discoveries in astronomy.
- And so he balanced his gear in his schooner and hoisted the bright blue lateen sail. THE BROKEN GOD
- Then, trimming his lateen sails to navigate against the prevailing headwinds, he sailed into the Southern Hemisphere, in whose unfamiliar skies neither his astrolabe nor his almanacs availed him further.
- But if there be a fair wind off the land, there will be little rowing; the big lateen sail on her one mast will span the narrow waters between the African coast and the Balearic Isles, where a convenient look-out may be kept for Spanish galleons or perhaps an Italian polacca. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
